There are, i think, saudis who can leave the country but princes and others. Whether the right people get a chance remains to be seen. Host former wall street journal publisher Karen Elliott house, a book on saudi arabia its people, past, religion, fault linesand future. Here it is the cover. Booktv is on location. Guest thank you. Every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. During the tvs recent visit to st. Paul, we stopped by, and good books to hear about the impact of the independent bookstores on the community. [silence] at restock a lot of fiction, books that people expect to find and along the way, books that are new to them. People like paperbacks as well. That works well at the store. And nonfiction is a very good category for us. Thomas picardys capital was an unexpected best seller in the early part of the year. Another big category was regiona
That is a look at what we will be covering this upcoming week. For more go to booktv. Org and visit upcoming program. Nathan mccall talked about his book, makes me wanna holler a young black man in America Great he talked about his time and childhood in virginia and his time in rehab. This is about one hour. Allmak cspan author that his joining us today, nathan mccall, thean title is makes me wanna holler a young black man in america. Y where did you get the title . Guest i got the title fromlbum c an old gates alvin they came out in 1971. It is a classic and there was ainne song called inner city blues. Oll a and it says in the song that it makes me want to holler andne in a brought throw up my hands. And so i use that line in a piece i wrote for thepost Washington Post. T on. So it sort of caught on. Li . Cspan what was the purpose of the line . Guest the line was talkinged about the span itself. It talked about the time and thetrife,an d social strife and some of the to same issues
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Restrictions, mostly racist ones, chinese immigrants were not welcome and congress added that they endanger the good order. And then politicians do what politicians do. They added more rules including importers of prostitutes and polygamy and anarchic. By the time that immigrants came through ellis island, there were more rules. You couldnt be sick or noticeably sick, doctors were supposed to check for 60 symptoms of disease but they had only a few seconds to decide. So they asked children their names to the if they were deaf or dumb. But you cant order limped, you might be turned away or quarantine. 3000 immigrants died on ellis island while they were quarantined. In all, many were sent back. Most got in. But racism still prevails. But if you are white and from europe, you probably got in because my parents got in. Germany in 1930. Today, we have many more rules. You can come legally only if youre related to someone already here and you have a rare job skill or if you come from the co
Restrictions, mostly racist ones, chinese immigrants were not welcome and congress added that they endanger the good order. And then politicians do what politicians do. They added more rules including importers of prostitutes and polygamy and anarchic. By the time that immigrants came through ellis island, there were more rules. You couldnt be sick or noticeably sick, doctors were supposed to check for 60 symptoms of disease but they had only a few seconds to decide. So they asked children their names to the if they were deaf or dumb. But you cant order limped, you might be turned away or quarantine. 3000 immigrants died on ellis island while they were quarantined. In all, many were sent back. Most got in. But racism still prevails. But if you are white and from europe, you probably got in because my parents got in. Germany in 1930. Today, we have many more rules. You can come legally only if youre related to someone already here and you have a rare job skill or if you come from the co